Katie Couric opened her interview with Stephen Collins, the 7th Heaven actor who admitted this week to molesting young girls, with a direct question: “Are you a pedophile?”

Collins’ answer was shaky at best as he tried to tip-toe around saying anything but “yes.” He tries to explain that his therapist relieved his concerns of being a pedophile by explaining that he doesn’t match the “clinical or dictionary definition” of one.

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Couric’s interview with Collins is the first and likely only on-camera interview the actor will be conducting about his actions. The allegations first came to light in October when his ex-wife released a secretly-recorded therapy session in which Collins admitted to molesting three young girls.

The actor explains in his new interview that, “I had a distortion in my thinking where I acted out in those ways, but I’m absolutely not attracted — physically or sexually attracted — to children. I’m just not.”

“You say you never were,” Couric replies.

“No, I wasn’t. I remember talking about this once with a therapist, assuring me that these incidents were such that if — someone with that attraction would’ve acted many more times — many more often — they were, they were terrible and I regret them deeply, but I was not looking — I don’t, I don’t look at young women that way.”

Collins released a statement to People Magazine earlier this week and appears to be trying to turn a new page as we get closer to the New Year. Perhaps he wants to try to put this all behind him before the year is out so he can begin to move on.

But Hollywood won’t forget, and his career is likely over.

Collins has appeared on a full range of television shows over the years. The allegations led him to be fired from Ted 2 in October. At the same time, he resigned from the SAG-AFTRA board.